What are Minecraft Adventure Maps? Where can you find the best Minecraft Adventure Maps? How do you play in them?

Being a “sandbox game”, Minecraft is very open to different play styles. Some people love building, some love mining and crafting, others love adventuring. Adventure Maps are worlds you can play in that are specially designed for adventure. Sometimes, in order to get the most of Adventure Maps you should install a specific Texture Pack. It all depends on the map. Texture Packs will change the graphics of Minecraft, for example, making the stone and wood look different. When you download Adventure Maps, make sure you check if there is a required or recommended texture pack.

Adventure Maps are almost always free. Installing Adventure Maps is usually easy once you find the right place to put the files. If you would like help installing maps, just ask in a comment below.

Herobrine’s Mansion

Probably one of the most famous Adventure Maps is Herobrine’s Mansion. Check out this video, it gives a sense of how much fun it can be discovering the secrets and challenges of Minecraft when you play an Adventure Map.

Herobrine’s Mansion is a great Adventure Map for beginners to Adventure Maps because it requires no mods. Mods are extensions (like plugins) to Minecraft which modify the gameplay. Installing mods can be tricky and technical, so any maps that do not require a server with mods is much easier to set up.

Zelda Adventure

Zelda Adventure on the other hand, does require a mod, namely the AdventureCraft Mod. The great thing about Zelda Adventure is that, due to the AdventureCraft Mod, it can contain cut scenes, music and customer user interfaces. This makes the adventure more thrilling. Here’s the trailer:

Kingdom of the Sky

If you want one of the most beautiful Adventure Maps, exploring floating castles and exotic architecture, your best choice will be Kingdom of the Sky. The map creator has even made a series of YouTube Videos that act as a tutorial to help you explore the world he has created.

Deep Space Turtle Chase

If you like sci-fi puzzle places, then try this one from The Voxel Box. Deep Space Turtle Chase is definitely one of the top Adventure Maps of the year. Set on a remote mining station, your job is to capture the criminal Dr. Testudine (if you can!). One thing I like about it is designed for both Single Player or Co-op on a network, not all Adventure Maps work well for both. Born out of the genius that is Captain Sparklez, this adventure map is a lot of fun and will require you to use your brain and think through the puzzles. Don’t cheat!

The wonderful soundtrack by C418 which plays in Minecraft has been available for sale for a while. You can get the whole album for a great price, but do shop around. People who don’t like video games enough to even try Minecraft may even love this music!

But what if you want to play it yourself on your own piano or keyboard? Did you know that sheet music arranger Sebastian Wolff has created MIDI and Sheet Music for many of the tracks in Minecraft?

There is so much information about Minecraft online, you might not be surprised to discover there are also a number of books written about it. There are strategy guides, building and architecture guids, creative furniture making books, the list goes on.

There are a huge number of kindle electronic books (e-books) but there are also a lot of hardcover books and paperbacks, coffee table books and others that seem like text books! Well you know Minecraft is used in the classroom!

The main areas that these books cover are:

Here’s what a little digging has found:

Tips and tricks

Cheats

Mods – finding and installing

Tekkit – the advanced system of high tech mods

Making Mods – being a total programmer like Notch

Redstone – the mystical mechanical magic of minecraft

Potions

Design – architecture and interior decorating

Total guides for Pocket Edition, survival or Minecraft in general

Traps

Servers – finding good ones, even setting one up your own

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Minecon is an official Minecraft convention held in Paris, France. It’s actually being held at Disneyland Paris! What could be cooler than going to Minecon in the world’s most romantic city? Well maybe going to the party afterwards with Notch and Skrillex!

Yes that’s right. According to the video invite/teaser tweeted by Notch, dubstep superhero Skrillex will be at the party, no doubt pumping out his huge sound… wub wubs and wow wows.

When you’re Notch you can throw a party like this:

There’s no secret, Notch likes Skrillex, and it’s suspected that Skrillex plays Minecraft (or at least he should). We do know Skrillex follows Notch on Twitter.

Architect Spotlight is when we shine the spotlight on real life Minecraft Heroes out there in the community. This time we are showcasing MCFRArchitect.

MCFRArchitect is a group, of about a dozen French Minecraft architects. They have their own server (of course), YouTube channel, their work can be found all over the web and they have done some amazing large-scale builds as you can see below.

I wonder whether this creative group has been inspired by the wonderful architecture of Paris?

Want to see the timelapse video of them painstakingly reconstructing Cleopatra’s Palace?

Or check out their Futuristic City, now 100% complete:

A great place to see more of their work is on Planet Minecraft, which is a recommended source of Minecraft architectural excellence.

There are so many Minecraft Costumes out there on the web. You can make your own and you can buy professional ones. For example, Amazon actually sells Steve and Creeper heads as well as Minecraft Pickaxes which would make a great prop for a Minecraft Halloween costume.

Previously we’ve covered the Gast costume so I thought I’d give those of you who are trying to find Halloween costumes a hand and list all the sources of Halloween Minecraft costumes that I’ve been able to find over the years.

It seems Minecraft is a real Halloween game, it already has Jack-o-lanterns and Zombies. In fact if you put these things together – the cardboard box world with the traditional Halloween things, it seems Minecraft must have been made with Halloween in mind.

For Minecraft fans, this has got to be a match made in heaven. Minecraft is already enough like playing with Lego that it obviously appeals to the same kinds of minds. Many people have been awaiting this since it’s first announcement. Well you may be interested to know the official release of Minecraft-themed Lego is available to buy.

Note that this Lego is the new mini type. So it may not be suitable for birthday presents for little kids. According to the box, the recommended age range is 10+, so that makes it easier than the famous Lego Architecture mini Lego kits which typically specify 12+.

Oh, looks like another ol’ creeper he’ll wanna’ think twice before he blows this thang up
With a little flip get my sword out and he’ll be turnin’ round quick, you can bank on it
Irons or diamonds, who cares or knows, it’s the way I mine up and down them holes
Yeah I look like one of them diamond hoes, so extravagant, but that’s how it goes
Up in my house didn’t think I saw him, creeps up behind me and he’s like sssss
I’m like oh snap, I’m gonna’ decapitate, no hesitate, become irate (irate)
Umm go fo the head, what can I say
Yeah I Get it done quick, how I kill my prey
No more mobs come and bother me.
I hack that bro, that’s how I play

I see you sneakin’ I can see you crouchin’ down low
Wanna’ hop up in my minecart and take a ride home
Then we’ll go to my place and craft us up some iron swords
And possibly make some potions